Word: sequined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memo to the designers: Better get back to the old drawing board and quit trying to redo Pat Nixon [Jan. 24]. I predict that increased exposure to her tasteful grooming is going to send not a few medallioned, chain-dangling, flour-faced, sequin-eyelidded, thigh-exposing adult females back to their full-length mirrors...
...threw a bash at Brasserie Bofinger, one of the newest In restaurants in Paris. It was a time for the boys to shine, but it was an aging lady of 72 who stole the show. The Duchess of Windsor, looking slim as ever in her well-above-the-knee sequin outfit, wowed the crowd by dancing the Jerk with her host...
They were lovely hangers for any dress. Baroness Fiona Thyssen slinked down the runway in harlequin pants by Galitzine. Princess Luciano Pignatelli drifted by in Valentino's feather-and-sequin coat. Princess Ira von Furstenberg pranced on in a Mondrian dress by St. Laurent. And princely P.R. Man Serge Obolensky, who had rounded up his titled friends to stage the haute couture parade, beamed as 2,600 ladies and their husbands paid $10 apiece to jam into Alexander's department store in Manhattan to see what fancy duds a bargain outfit could include on its racks -and incidentally...
...bust in memory, and in another it is. The French revue of flesh and spectacle opened last week in Manhattan. Even beforehand, Peeping Toms began to swarm and cluster around the Broadway Theater because they had heard that some of the girls were rehearsing without so much as a sequin to outflash their natural splendors. But, alas, even a relatively small sequin could do just that...
...trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters of slick Ski Resort Operator Alexander Gushing, as Gemini, the twins in yellow silk sheaths and sequin-studded grey turbans. To be sure that the headgear crushed not a curl, Hairdresser Mr. Kenneth was backstage with teasing comb at the ready...